I have to build a couple of websites that will be hosted in a shared hosting environment. Both applications have different functionalities that can't be easily solved by the usual cms. It's not commercial stuff, so there's no money to afford anything else, and besides, the space is kindly offered for free. The environment is php 5.3.6.

I normally would pick symfony 2 to develop quickly and save a lot of headaches, but there's a big problem with performances: without APC or equivalent accelerator, things are really slow.

I know there are lots of "what's the best php framework?" questions out there, but this is aimed to a specific environment, to avoid a specific problem.

What is the best solution to develop in php when you don't have accelerators?

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Well, Codeigniter is very lightweight and fast
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m4t1t0Feb 7 '13 at 8:47

Flight seems interesting.. Slim is nice, I already used it for a little json api, but I was looking for something more quick to develop with. So I'm probably going for silex, although I'm not happy since it has no stable release yet (I guess we have to wait symfony 2.2). Still, I don't know where are the performance bottlenecks and so what bundles/libraries I can use and what others not... I suppose doctrine is probably the big time-drainer, and maybe twig is heavy too?
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gggFeb 13 '13 at 13:47